Zen Buddhism category: 725 books
Thank You and OK!
An American Zen Failure in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
David Chadwick, a Texas-raised wanderer, college dropout, bumbling social activist, and hobbyhorse musician, began his study under Shunryu Suzuki Roshi in 1966. In 1988 Chadwick flew to Japan to begin a four-year period of voluntary exile and remedial Zen education. In Thank You and OK! he recounts...
Together We Are One
Honoring Our Diversity, Celebrating Our Connection
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2005
Based on four retreats that Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh led specifically for people of color, this book is for people of all colors, backgrounds, and experiences who have ever felt excluded or alienated, or anyone concerned with issues of social justice. Although Together We Are One is based on teachings...
Nothing Is Hidden
The Psychology of Zen Koans
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
In this inspiring and incisive offering, Barry Magid uses the language of modern psychology and psychotherapy to illuminate one of Buddhism's most powerful and often mysterious technologies: the Zen koan. What's more, Magid also uses the koans to expand upon the insights of psychology (especially...
Sex Sin and Zen
A Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2010
With his one-of-a kind blend of autobiography pop culture and plainspoken Buddhism Brad Warner explores an A-to-Z of sexual topics from masturbation to dating gender identity to pornography. In addition to approaching sexuality from a Buddhist perspective he looks at Buddhism emptiness compassion...
Wholehearted Way
A Translation of Eihei Dagen's Bendowa, With Commentary by Kosho Uchiyama Roshi
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
The Wholehearted Way is a translation of Eihei Dogen's Bendowa, one of the primary texts on Zen practice. Transcending any particular school of Buddhism or religious belief, Dogen's profound and poetic writings are respected as a pinnacle of world spiritual literature. Bendowa, or A Talk on the Wholehearted...
Training in Compassion
Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Lojong is the Tibetan Buddhist practice that involves working with short phrases (called "slogans") as a way of generating bodhichitta, the heart and mind of enlightened compassion. Though the practice is more than a millennium old, it has become popular in the West only in the last twenty...
by Master Sheng Yen
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 1999
Complete Enlightenment is the first authoritative translation and commentary on The Sutra of Complete Enlightenment, a central text that shaped the development of East Asian Buddhism and Ch'an (Chinese Zen). The text is set in the form of a transcription of discussions between the Buddha and the...
Encouraging Words
Zen Buddhist Teachings for Western Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
*"The inspiration that guided monks and nuns in ancient times is our own deepest incentive as we establish our practice in a world that desperately needs new forms of kinship and love."
—Robert Aitken
Encouraging Words* is a collection of short talks and brief essays that Aitken...
by Hee-Jin Kim
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Eihei Dogen, the founder of the Japanese branch of the Soto Zen Buddhist school, is considered one of the world's most remarkable religious philosophers. Eihei Dogen: Mystical Realist is a comprehensive introduction to the genius of this brilliant thinker. This thirteenth-century figure has much to...
Attaining the Way
A Guide to the Practice of Chan Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
This is an inspiring guide to the practice of Chan (Chinese Zen) in the words of four great masters of that tradition. It includes teachings from contemporary masters Xuyun and Sheng Yen, and from Jiexian and Boshan of the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644). Though the texts were written over a period of...
The Infinite Mirror
Commentaries on Two Chan Classics
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
Here is the inimitable Master Sheng Yen at his best, illuminating the ancient texts of the Chinese Zen tradition to show how wonderfully practical they really are, even for us today. The texts, written by two of the founders of the Ts’ao-tung sect of Chan Buddhism, are poems entitled Inquiry into...
Just This Is It
Dongshan and the Practice of Suchness
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
The joy of "suchness"—the absolute and true nature inherent in all appearance—shines through the teachings attributed to Dongshan Liangjie (807–869), the legendary founder of the Caodong lineage of Chan Buddhism (the predecessor of Sōtō Zen). Taigen Dan Leighton looks at the teachings...
by Glenn Gustafson, OPB
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
The recitation of the name Amitabha Buddha is an ancient practice in Buddhism. This practice has been popularized in Jodo Shinshu Buddhism - the most popular form of devotional Buddhism currently being practiced.While Jodo - or Shin - Buddhism is focused on the recitation as a way of insuring...
by Bryan Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
There is a tremendous amount of breathing living wisdom in each of us. Sometimes it's a matter of seeing that the wisdom is already there. Seeing triggers the growth, evolution, and reinforces awareness. I explore the applications of the Dharma teachings. This book draws on the wisdom teachings...